lets be clear about it though, the problem exists with ALL UG labs. there never has been and there never will be a UG setup that operates like a pharma company, because of the nature of what they are doing. even the ones that 'buy' pharma licenses in some of the less scrupilous countries arent any better, and will never be real pharma quality, because of the end user and market.
the best you can get with any UG lab is a balance of probability, and this can change at any time for any lab. and its fine saying pharma all the way, but fact is for a good range of the things we use, pharma isnt an option. then there is the problem of fakes, some of which are very well done (take the nordic viromone for example, or some of the schering fakes) and there is always going to be more risk associated with fake gear than ug simply because the reputation isnt theirs to lose.
a huge amount of the gear on the market supposidly pharma is fake. lots of people who think they have pharma really dont. most of the fakes are very hard to spot, even if your well versed and have held alot of different stuff, which for most of us isnt the case at all. look on the net, even with the best photos you will get mixed opinions on everything unless its shockingly bad. look at an old post of mine where i posted pictures of some niles half and half, yet i know they were fake, from thai markets.
abcesses are very rare, gear has BA or BB in, look at the reactions when a lab gets the concentration wrong! anyone thats homebrewed will tell you as well that if you put even a tiny % too much in the swelling is unbelievable. polutants and process chemicals and impurities are more of a worry to be honest. and this is common to all UG and fakes.
there are factories in the uk that pump out thousands of amps a week of viromone, all types of test supposidly eastern european, iranians, niles, deca etc etc. why? because people use it and dont know any different.
easy to say use pharma, and never a truer word spoken, BUT its not as simple as that.
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